United States Second Circuit

A First Amendment retaliation lawsuit, predicated on speech about gender discrimination against a fellow employee that directly implicates the access of the courts to truthful testimony, is speech on a matter of public concern.

Appellate Information

• Argued 11/18/2004
• Decided 01/07/2005
• Published 01/07/2005

Judges

• OAKES, Senior Circuit Judge., Before OAKES, CALABRESI, and STRAUB, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Second Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Dennis A. Bengels, Garden City, NY, (Sharon Cerelle Konits, Plainview, NY, co-counsel), for Plaintiff-Appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Lewis R. Silverman, NY, N.Y. (Tania M. Torno, Rutherford & Christie, LLP, of counsel), for Defendants-Appellees.